Ukraine War Diaries: EP36 - Snowy returns, surviving by smartphone & going south (Dec 5-9)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Ilyas, illustrates how he - and other Ukrainians - are using their smart phones to stay one step ahead of enemy bombing raids.
And Seva marks a day of military celebration.
OUR DIARISTS
Ilyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. His wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.
As of December 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv.
Seva, 40, is a company CEO and husband to Oksana. Before the war, he travelled across Europe for business. Now, he makes regular supply drops of medical aid and rations to Ukrainian troops on the front line in Eastern Ukraine. He’s originally from a small village near Dnipro.
Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv.
Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s continues to try and make a life there.
Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio, recorded on the ground in Ukraine, to give an intimate day-to-day perspective of life in a war zone.
EP36 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.
Producer: Rob Mulhern
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion: David Chipakupaku
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:02.0 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:09.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice |
| 0:12.4 | by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:15.2 | through their website or the NHS app. |
| 0:18.2 | We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:24.3 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? Oh, just tight pain in the neck. When Russia invaded Ukraine, |
| 0:33.3 | Sky News asked a group of Ukrainians to record diaries as war twisted both their country and their |
| 0:39.9 | lives violently out of shape. There were seven bombs, the seven hits that I heard. |
| 0:45.7 | Husband and father, Ilias, all of the cities that my bus passed, they were all under attack. |
| 0:52.0 | Kiev resident Oxana. We have no other choice than to fight. |
| 0:56.0 | What can we do? |
| 0:57.0 | And her husband, military volunteer SEVA, |
| 0:59.7 | have documented everything from drone strikes to war crimes. |
| 1:04.5 | This is Ukraine War Diaries. |
| 1:06.8 | The... Hey everyone. It's the second week of December. |
| 1:20.9 | This is Exana from Kiev. |
| 1:24.4 | So I arrived in Ukraine after almost two months of absence. |
| 1:29.9 | And of course the change was drastic. |
| 1:33.2 | In Ukraine it's like full-tone winter now. |
| 1:37.3 | And of course there have been a lot of changes in terms of the power blackouts. |
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